Looking to increase USTA League participation in and around San Diego and North County, weekend play was offered for the first time for local women’s leagues a year ago. This season, one of those weekend teams is a North County 18-and-over 4.0 team that plays out of Kit Carson Park in Escondido and captained by…

The love of the game of tennis has kept Alexa Glatch on the court after battling back from injury after injury for half of her professional career. The hour and hours of rehab have piled up over the years, so much so that the 30-year-old Irvine resident Glatch can’t even come close to totaling or…

There have been many Central Coast Moments this week at the Templeton Tennis Ranch, host of this week’s Central Coast Pro Tennis Open, a USTA Women’s Pro Circuit Tournament offering $60,000 in prize money and taking place just three miles south of Paso Robles in north San Luis Obispo County. The Templeton Tennis Ranch is…

  American teams won five of the 10 titles at the 39th International Tennis Federation (ITF) Super-Seniors World Team Championships in Croatia this weekend, including another triumph for Glendale’s Tina Karwasky and first place trophies for Escondido’s David Dollins, Aliso Viejo’s Dean Corley, and San Diego’s Liane Bryson. The women’s team won three titles while…

  Tennis fans won’t have to wait until springtime to witness some of the finest local collegiate talent, as students return to campus this month and a collection of top level tournaments welcome players back to the court and into competitive mode. This weekend, defending Division III champions Claremont Mudd-Scripps resumed their streak of dominant…

The player entry list heading into next week’s Central Coast Pro Tennis Open is jam-packed with recognizable current WTA players, and some you will be no doubt be hearing about in the years to come. The 2018 US Open doubles champion and former US Open Junior Girls’ winner CoCo Vandeweghe has received a USTA wild…

  It was 49 years ago that Dave Reed met with the tennis committee of Pasadena’s Valley Hunt Club to tell them he wasn’t interested in the job of head pro. “It was going to be a courtesy interview,” Reed says. “Long Ellis had called my dad and asked if I might be interested. I…

Wildly popular and still considered one of the best doubles teams in the world at the age of 41, Mike and Bob Bryan are looking forward to this Sunday’s hometown reunion. The Bryan Bros. Tennis Fest returns to Camarillo and the Spanish Hills Country Club after a two-year hiatus, just a few miles from where…

  The SCTA Foundation is the charitable and philanthropic arm of the USTA Southern California section. The Foundation’s mission is “to promote and develop the growth of tennis in Southern California” by supporting, among other things, “deserving junior players” with financial grants. The Foundation currently maintains three grant programs for individual juniors: The Kramer Future…

When you look up and down the 2019 men’s and women’s USTA Competitive Pathway events calendars on the USTA.com website, it’s surprising to see only one $50,000-level USTA Pro Circuit event or higher taking place this year in all of Southern California. Diehard local tennis fans will recall years ago when Andre Agassi was on…